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The Tineco Floor One S9 Artist Steam Plus is built for the modern home and offers chemical-free cleaning that’s effortless and effective.
The battle to clean your floor is heating up – literally. The new Tineco Floor One S9 Artist Steam Plus now uses 230-degree Celsius HyperSteam to make your floors spotless without the need for any chemicals.
It turns steam into a natural disinfectant to clean and kill germs and keep your home safe for your kids and pets.
Tech Guide took the Tineco Floor One S9 Artist Steam Plus for a spin in our home.
Our place is perfectly suited for a product like this because 90 per cent of our living area is covered in large tiles.
It has a sleek modern look and, thanks to the SmoothDrive Technology, it’s self-propelled and easy to move in all directions. It’s effortless cleaning.
The first thing you need to do is fill up the clean water tank that sits on top of the cleaner head.
There’s a small display at the top of the handle that allows you to control the Tineco Floor One S9 Artist Steam Plus and access the various cleaning modes – Auto, Max Steam Suction and Quiet.
Naturally we went for the Steam mode first up and we were presented with a progress indicator on the display.
About a minute later steam was available and we could see it coming from the roller.
Now our tiles are a light beige colour and dirt shows up easily so it didn’t take too long to see just how effective the steam mode was.
Usually small stains and dirt lifted straight off with one sweep.
On board is an iLoop Smart Sensor, which can detect dirt and adjust the amount of water and power needed to remove it.
But the Tineco Floor One S9 Artist Steam Plus also has a ReverseScrub Technology which activates a 14-second reverse brush rotation so you can concentrate the scrubbing on a particular area.
We used this a couple of times on a couple of stubborn stains and seconds later they were gone.
The Tineco Floor One S9 Artist Steam Plus has triple-sided cleaning, which means it can clean along skirting boards and corners right up to the edge.
It’s also easy to manoeuvre around furniture so there’s no need to lift chairs and can lie flat to fit under low furniture to get into all those hard to reach places.
The other modes can be used depending on how much and how intensely you’d like to clean.
The Suction mode was great to pick up visible dirt and debris on the floor before running the steam clean mode.
And Quiet mode really speaks for itself. It took the noise levels right down so it’s ideal for those times when you need to clean but don’t want to wake other people in your household or a sleeping baby.
Now all the while, clean water is being applied to the brush and dirty water is removed at high speed to prevent streaking and deliver a more hygienic residue-free clean.
But the system managed that all very well and there was never any excess water on the floor.
There was the odd streak here and there but that’s not a deal breaker. Overall it did a terrific job.
Battery life was impressive with up to 110 minutes when used in Quiet mode.
In Max and Steam mode that runtime can go between 45 minutes and an hour, which is still plenty of time to get through even a larger home.
But it’s not the end of the story when you finish your clean.
When you’re done the Tineco Floor One S9 Artist Steam Plus can then run through its self-cleaning system.
Simply place the unit back on its charging stand and hit the self-clean button on the top of the handle.
From here the FlashDry Self-Cleaning with Silent Dry mode kicks in to clean the brush roller and the internals to ensure it’s ready to go the next time you need it but also ensure there are no nasty smells either.
The Tineco Floor One S9 Artist Steam Plus is available now exclusively through Amazon and is priced at $1,499.
VERDICT
The Tineco Floor One S9 Artist Steam Plus is built for the modern home and offers chemical-free cleaning that’s effortless and effective.
